Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.

Trying to control information in the network age is about as successful as pissing into the wind.

Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.

Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?

Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.